Tag Archives: DOT

The Small Business Administration and the Department of the Treasury have announced additional data regarding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Amyx has announced its response to the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain the rapid spread of the disease and its effects by supporting front-line response agencies and enabling the procurement of critical medical supplies to medical response activities, the company reported on Friday. 

ST Engineering North America’s shipbuilding business has received a $1.7M grant from the Department of Transporation’s Maritime Administration to procure and install a new 1,250-ton press brake.

The Federal Highway Administration has issued a broad agency announcement for research projects on highway design, planning, construction, management, operation and maintenance.

PJ Henry, formerly a business development and capture lead for the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and the Department of Transportation at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Karsun Solutions as director of business development, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

The Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has selected Tote Services to manage the construction of a new national security training ship under a $39.1M contract.

The company will choose a shipyard and apply industry best practices for the delivery of the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel, MARAD said Tuesday.

The Department of Transportation is looking for potential vendors that can support DOT personnel in enterprise risk management and internal controls assessment efforts.

Anthony Robbins, vice president of North American public sector at NVIDIA, said contracting officials should find innovative ways to speed up the acquisition process in order to meet the demand for artificial intelligence, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “Everyone of us in this room would be retired way before [reform] is done,” Robbins, a 2019 Wash100 winner, said Thursday at a Northern Virginia Technology Council event.
 

Researchers from Anomali's research arm have identified a malicious server linked to two phishing campaigns that try to deceive government contractors to send sensitive information to threat actors. Anomali Labs said Monday its researchers detected on Feb. 23 the online bidding-themed phishing schemes, which lead contractors to fake landing pages mimicking the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation’s eProcurement portal.

The Department of Transportation has issued the solicitation for the first phase of its fiscal year 2019 Small Business Innovation Research program that will fund small businesses in developing and commercializing new technologies.

The Department of Transportation is seeking comments on how recent technology developments would affect the deployment of dedicated short-range communications for connected-vehicle transmissions. DOT mainly wants to hear from stakeholders and the general public about technology platforms that may support or change vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-pedestrian communications, according to a …

Michael Jenkins, senior scientist at Charles River Analytics, discussed the company’s efforts to develop an augmented reality display through a Federal Highway Administration-funded project aimed at hazard awareness for motorcyclists. He delivered a presentation about the BARRACUDA initiative at the third-annual meeting of the FHWA’s Motorcyclist Advisory Council last month, …

The Department of Transportation will launch the second round of a grant program that seeks to allocate up to $902.5M in federal funds for large and small infrastructure projects nationwide in fiscal year 2019. DOT said Friday it plans to award at least $25M each to large projects and at least $5M …

BayFirst Solutions has secured a task order to help the Transportation Department create data modeling and business intelligence prototypes for the department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The company said Monday it will support PHMSA in efforts to develop tools intended to determine patterns, generate forecasts to identify areas for improvement in …

The Transportation Department has issued a request for information on potential industry sources of technology platforms that can work to integrate, analyze and visualize safety-related data on multimodal surface transportation. DOT said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday it will collect public comments in an effort to determine whether and how to advance data systems and …